Local Plan Update Proposed Submission Plan Consultation (Regulation 19)
IMPORTANT: If you are taking the survey at the bottom of this page, you will need to have completed and submitted it before the 5PM deadline on Wednesday, 13 November.
If you start the survey but do not finish before then, you will not be able to complete or submit it.
Wokingham Borough Council is in the process of preparing a new local plan – the Local Plan Update.
This sets out the planning policies the council will use to manage development across the borough. Once adopted, it will replace the policies set out in the council’s current local plans.
The council has now published the next version of the plan, known as the Proposed Submission Plan (Regulation 19), for comment.
Publication
The Proposed Submission Plan and all supporting documents may be viewed on our website.
A selection are also listed for viewing below.
- Proposed Submission Plan (PDF)
- Policies map A1 (PDF)
- Policies map B1 (PDF)
- Policies map B2 (PDF)
- Policies map C1 (PDF)
- Policies map C2 (PDF)
- Policies map D1 (PDF)
- Policies map D2 (PDF)
- Policies map D3 (PDF)
- Policies map layer key (PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal (SA) non-technical summary (PDF)
- Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) Report (PDF)
How to make comments
At this stage, comments are invited on the Proposed Submission Plan within the remit of legal compliance and the tests of soundness, as set out in national planning policy.
These tests form the basis against which the plan is assessed at examination.
Anyone wishing to respond is strongly advised to read the guidance notes on making representations, which provide more detail on these matters.
Submission of representations using the online form is strongly encouraged. However, a representation form is also available.
This can be filled in and emailed to LPU@wokingham.gov.uk or printed and posted to: Local Plan Update, Planning Policy, Wokingham Borough Council offices, Shute End, Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 1BN.
Representations received after 5PM on Wednesday 13 November 2024 will not be accepted, nor will any anonymous comments.
Phases
Right homes, right places consultation
This was the second public consultation on the plan so far and was a discussion document to help us move towards the strategy options for development in a draft plan.
The consultation asked about where you think development should go - concentrated in new communities or spread throughout the borough - and whether there are locations that may be suitable for higher densities, and taller buildings. There were also questions about land for new employment centres.
All of the land being put forward for development as part of this process was publicly available, with the opportunity to provide comments on its suitability.
The consultation was open between 12 November 2018 and 22 February 2019. Copies of the consultation document are available below:
Alongside this we consulted on the Sustainability Appraisal/Strategic Environmental Assessment (SA/SEA).
We sent out a leaflet to all residents in the Borough. Read the leaflet, below:
All comments received as part of this consultation were reviewed and have informed the Draft Plan.